City of Waterbury to file lawsuit against makers of opioid medicines

WATERBURY – The City of Waterbury on Thursday engaged a firm to file a lawsuit against makers of opioid medicines. “We plan to file a lawsuit against a number of pharmaceutical companies in the up-and-coming weeks,” Mayor Neil M. O’Leary…

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The MAKERS are the Pharmaceutical Companies.. You can’t sue BIG PHARMA.. M.A you are exactly correct regarding the prescribers. What a misdirection of valuable resources. The City needs to start listening to more appropriate progressive solutions.

This is as dumb as suits filed against gun manufacturers because someone used a gun made by them to kill! Goes back to guns don’t kill people; people kill people. It’s not the maunfacturers of opioids that are killing people, it’s the people abusing the drugs that are killing themselves. Although it may sound mean, it’s actually natural selection at work and survival of the fittest. If you’re stupid enough to abuse opioids, knowing their addictive and deadly qualities, then natural selection is working normally.

I will qualify my comment again by saying, if it were my child, spouse, close relative affected by opioid use, I’d do everything I could to save them, but it would absolutely not include suing the manufacturers! That would be a waste of my time, money and resources, despite a chance to tap into their deep pockets. The only real winners in this suit will be the lawyers on each side and no one else!

This would be laughable if it were not so hypocritical.
99% of the HEROIN coming into this country crosses our southern border. FACT

This mayor has turned Waterbury into GUATABURY. A Sanctuary City. He with bff Malloy Welcome illegals here, with their backpacks full of heroin. He has diminished the police department..They are the laughing stock of the entire state..The city is lawless..

But he is so outraged he is gonna sue Watson Pharma for producing MEDICINE.

I cant accually believe that this newspaper has treated the decision to file suit against these companies HEROIC . In my opinion its so irresponsible and ignorant of these people to think that this would help any addict or normal individual from overdosing . The people that swallowed those pills are responsible 100 % . I’ve had 3 Back surgeries . I personally will loose everything that I have and am in need of my meds to live a very limited life . It takes everything I have just to get out of bed in the morning to go to work for a little while . Luckily I can come and go to and from work according to my pain . None of these people who are trying to wipe out this situation have not once taken into consideration the affect this will have on the people who desperatlly need these meds on a daily basis . I personally will loose everything I’ve worked for all my life if a judge rules in there favor . If they had any clue to an addicts brain they would know that this will not stop anything until that certain individual decides to get help . I know this from personal experience . I would think that a person like the mayor of Waterbury would be smarter than this . Apparently not !!!!! I would hope that this newspaper would for once get both sides of this story before reporting this because we the people who so desperatlly need this medication are literally screwed !!!! I would love find an attorney who would be on my side of this situation and sue the people responsible for these idiotic decisions because if they win I and I’m sure 1000s more will suffer . When somebody has a medical need for pain meds NO ONE but ther Dr. should have the right to dictate how and what to prescribe . I would like the reporter who wrote this article to interview me for a rebuttle article and insight on addiction and the need for this to STOP . So lets see if they really care about people or if this is being done only for that almighty vote and to hell whoever doesn’t matter .Lets see if they have the any care about people in pain . Odds are they don’t . I really hope I’m wrong . I just wish these people would tackle the problem witch isn’t the meds its the individuals who are to blame . I have so much more to say on this matter and I hope I can count on someone to help me and people like me . richardb1796@yahoo.com

Well said Richard! I’m going on my fourth fusion soon and they just don’t get it that some people really do need pain meds. I work full time and don’t take narcotic pain meds daily but it sucks that we have to worry about not being able to get these meds because of someone else’s problem.

To everybody that agrees with the stupidity of these decisions . Please pass this info around to everyone you know and so on and so on . I’m looking to try to sit down with someone who can help people who are in the same situation I am and try to work this out so we don’t loose everything that we’ve worked for . If anyone knows anyone who can help please reach out . Also maybe if the newspapers looked at our side of this mess people would think twice about ruining thousands of working peoples lives for there own fears and ignorance !!!! richardb1796@yahoo.com 2038192160

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